Biography

Composer, conductor and violinist. He studied for five years with Anton Dvorak in Prague, then returned to America as violinist and concertmaster with Victor Herbert in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He became the musical director at the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, a vaudeville house that became a movie palace. He published a vast collection of music for scoring English and American silent films, using at least fourteen pseudonyms. Moved to Hollywood in 1924, the year he joined ASCAP. His popular-song compositions include among others "Neapolitan Nights", "Out of the Dusk to You", "Indian Dawn", "One Fleeting Hour", "Aloha Sunset Land", "My Paradise", "Spirit of America", and "I'm A-Longin' fo' You".
- IMDb mini biography by: Louis Rugani <rodney@rddconsultants.com>

His studies under Antonín Dvorák were noticeable in the piece titled "Traffic", which contains short passages similar to passages in Dvorák's "Carnival" overture. This is most clearly heard in the cartoon Flowers for Madame (1935).